{"id":37738,"date":"2025-09-22T05:16:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T09:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/verstappen-wins-in-baku-russell-2nd-sainz-on-the-podium-piastri-out\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T05:16:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T09:16:28","slug":"verstappen-wins-in-baku-russell-2nd-sainz-on-the-podium-piastri-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/f1\/verstappen-wins-in-baku-russell-2nd-sainz-on-the-podium-piastri-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Verstappen Wins in Baku: Russell 2nd, Sainz on the Podium; Piastri Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Verstappen Triumphs in Azerbaijan; McLaren Suffers a Chaotic Weekend<\/h2>\n\nMax Verstappen took the victory at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, while McLaren experienced a weekend full of challenges on the streets of Baku. Oscar Piastri suffered an accident on the first lap, and Lando Norris secured seventh place.\n\nAfter a disastrous qualifying session for McLaren on Saturday, Verstappen started from <em>pole position<\/em>, while Norris and Piastri began in seventh and ninth place, respectively.\n\nPiastri&#8217;s race was compromised from the start, moving before the lights went out, which activated his car&#8217;s anti-stall system and relegated him to the back of the pack at Turn 1.\n\nTrying to recover positions, Piastri went off at Turn 5, locked the front brakes and crashed into the barriers.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I think, in the end, I misjudged the grip level. Probably a lot of that is due to the dirty air [from the cars in front], but I know I shouldn&#8217;t expect that lack of grip. I certainly don&#8217;t blame anything else. It was two simple mistakes on my part that I caused today.<\/p><cite>Oscar Piastri<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThis incident marked the end of Piastri&#8217;s eventful weekend, who also crashed in qualifying. Norris failed to capitalize on his teammate&#8217;s mistake, finishing seventh.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0921%2Fr1548843_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Max Verstappen gan\u00f3, mientras que Carlos Sainz obtuvo su primer podio para Williams, detr\u00e1s de George Russell, quien finaliz\u00f3 segundo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"\/f1\/story\/_\/id\/46335139\/mclaren-stella-even-schumacher-made-mistakes-piastri\">McLaren boss Stella: Even Schumacher made mistakes like Piastri<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"\/f1\/story\/_\/id\/46334683\/lewis-hamilton-apologise-charles-leclerc-position-swap-baku\">Lewis Hamilton will apologize to Charles Leclerc for the position swap<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\nThe result means that Norris reduced the gap in the standings to 25 points, the same amount as a victory, with seven races remaining.\n\nNorris could have secured fifth place and four additional points if it weren&#8217;t for a slow pit stop, which frustrated his chances of overtaking Yuki Tsunoda and Liam Lawson.\n\nPiastri received a five-second penalty for his jump start, but, according to FIA guidelines, it will not turn into a grid penalty in the next race.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Just a miscalculation with the lights, I guess I tried to anticipate too much. Yeah, a simple mistake and then the anti-stall kicked in and it went downhill from there, so, a simple mistake.<\/p><cite>Oscar Piastri<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nMcLaren&#8217;s meager points haul prevented the team from securing their defense of the constructors&#8217; championship, which will likely be decided in the next round in Singapore.\n\nVerstappen&#8217;s victory, the fourth of the season and the second in a row, puts him 69 points ahead of Piastri in the drivers&#8217; championship.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>This weekend has been incredible for us. Monza was already great, but for us to win here is fantastic. The car worked very well with both compounds. We had clean air all the time, so we could take care of our tires, and it was quite straightforward&#8230; it&#8217;s never easy around here, today there was a lot of wind, so the car was moving a lot. I am incredibly happy with this performance.<\/p><cite>Max Verstappen<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe Red Bull driver dominated the race, maintaining the lead from the start ahead of Carlos Sainz, who started second.\n\nSainz held third place, the first podium for Williams since their second place in the 2021 Belgian Grand Prix, behind George Russell, who used an alternative strategy to move from fifth to second for Mercedes.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I can&#8217;t describe how happy I am and how good it feels. It tastes even better than my first podium. We have been fighting hard all year and we showed that when we had speed, we had it all year and everything comes together and we can do incredible things together. We nailed the race, not a single mistake, and we managed to beat many cars [on Saturday] that we didn&#8217;t expect to beat.<\/p><cite>Carlos Sainz<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nRussell commented: &#8220;First of all, congratulations to Carlos and Williams. An incredible result for them. For us, very happy to be back on the podium. It&#8217;s been a bit of a tough weekend for me personally, but the car was great. [Kimi [Antonelli]] in P4 as well, so happy with that. I was very happy when I saw the checkered flag, to be honest. Fortunately I felt much better today than on Friday and Saturday. Looking forward to resting a bit now, but happy with the result.&#8221;\n\nThe combined result of Russell and Antonelli (2-4) ensured that Mercedes moved up to second place in the constructors&#8217; championship, four points ahead of Ferrari.\n\nLawson&#8217;s fifth place was the best of his career, while Tsunoda secured his best result of the season with the Red Bull team, finishing sixth.\n\nLewis Hamilton finished in eighth place, behind the battle for fifth place between Lawson, Tsunoda and Norris. The seven-time champion was given eighth place by his teammate Charles Leclerc, who was out of the running for a place in the top six.\n\nHamilton tried to give the position back to Leclerc at the end, but still crossed the line ahead of his teammate.\n\nIsack Hadjar secured the last point for Racing Bulls.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verstappen Triumphs in Azerbaijan; McLaren Suffers a Chaotic Weekend Max Verstappen took the victory at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, while McLaren experienced a weekend full of challenges on the streets of Baku. Oscar Piastri suffered an accident on the first lap, and Lando Norris secured seventh place. After a disastrous qualifying session for McLaren on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[8933,436,443,176],"class_list":{"0":"post-37738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-f1","7":"tag-azerbaijan-gp","8":"tag-lando-norris","9":"tag-max-verstappen","10":"tag-oscar-piastri"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}